A destitute ne’er-do-well arrives in Paris to claim the apartment his estranged father left him, but finds a wisecracking elderly occupant entitled to stay until she dies, and her resentful daughter determined to harass him off. Uh-oh, someone’s going to fall in lurve. Despite the powerhouse trio of Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Dame Maggie doing her astringent stuff, some good one-liners and Parisian locations, playwright-turned-director Israel Horovitz’s whiny fiftysomethings get deeply tedious through uncertain tone shifts between grey romcom, revelations and relationship drama. Charm? Nil points.
My Old Lady Review
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Itinerant American Mathias Gold (Kline) arrives in Paris expecting to take possession of a property bequeathed to him. But nonagenarian resident Mathilde (Smith) and her hostile daughter (Scott Thomas) stand between him and a permanent abode.
Release Date:
21 Nov 2014
Running Time:
107 minutes
Certificate:
12A
Original Title:
My Old Lady
Playing away from the strengths of its experience cast, this is muddled and charmless.
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